MOBILE, Alabama -- A 20-year-old Mobile man has been
arrested after police say he attempted to burglarize a woman selling candy from
her home on Jan. 13.

Akeem Alexander Miller was arrested on Tuesday on one count
of first-degree burglary, said Ashley Rains, public information officer for the
Mobile Police Department.

Around 8 p.m. on Jan. 13, police were called to a reported
burglary at a home on the 2800 block of Edgewood Street, Rains said.

A resident, known around the neighborhood as the Candy Lady,
told police a man had come to her home asking to buy candy.

"When she retrieved the candy that the suspect asked
for, she noticed that he was entering her home carrying a knife," Rains
said. "She was able to actually push him out of the home there -- actually
tripped him up as well and he left on foot."

On Tuesday, police arrested Miller at a home on Nall Street
"very close to where the crime occurred," Rains said.

Records from Mobile County Metro Jail show Miller has been
booked twice before on traffic-related charges. He does not appear to have previously
faced criminal charges in Mobile County.